But in no long time suffering arises again. There is no end to it.
The Buddha taught us to know suffering. As soon as you know suffering clearly as it is, then samudaya, the cause of suffering, will be automatically abandoned. As soon as the cause is given up, cessation (nirodha)—that is, nibbana—will automatically appear. You don’t have to go searching for nibbana anywhere else. Nibbana isn’t in the temples; it isn’t at Wat Suan Santidham; it’s not with me; it isn’t with the Buddha. Nibbana lies in front of us, but wanting (tanha) obscures it. Our eye, our dhamma eye, is closed off by wanting. So we don’t see nibbana, even though it is right in front of us.
Our eye, our dhamma eye, is closed off by wanting. So we don’t see nibbana, even though it is right in front of us.
You must learn suffering, learn the truth of the body, learn the truth of the mind, and keep on with it. If you have a lot of good accumulated perfections, you could attain arahantship in only one day, seeing the truth of the body and mind in full. If your merit is a little less than that, it might be three days or seven days, seven months or seven years. If your merit is less than that, it might be seven lifetimes. Keep on practicing.
The Buddha taught that we attain purity through wisdom. This wisdom is not worldly cleverness. True wisdom is knowing the truth of suffering (dukkha). When you clearly know suffering, you give up the cause (samudaya), and you realize and attain cessation (nirodha), which is nibbana. And at that moment when you touch nibbana, the noble path (magga) arises.
Suffering—know it; the cause—relinquish it; cessation, nibbana—realize it; the path—develop it. All these four tasks are performed at once. We complete them all at once, in the one moment. When we see suffering, we relinquish the cause; when we relinquish the cause, we realize cessation; when we realize cessation, then we have developed the path. These four tasks are completed at the one place in the one moment. At the one place: That is at this very mind, in only one mind moment.
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